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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
(a) Genes and Mutations.
(b) Transposition and Mutations.
(c) Genes and Transposition.
(d) Evolution and Genes.

2. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) McClintock.
(b) Millikan.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Roughe.

3. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?
(a) A banker.
(b) A school teacher.
(c) A professional harpist.
(d) A rodeo queen.

4. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) G. Beadle.
(b) J. Lenderberg.
(c) M. Rhoades.
(d) T. Painter.

5. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

2. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?

3. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?

4. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?

5. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

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